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ACTIVITIES
1. Choose the correct answer:
a) The Earth is …
a an asteroid
a planet
a a star
b) The Moon is …
b an asteroid
a a planet
a a satellite
c) An object which orbit another object is called a…
) bung
b moon
m satellite
2. Fill in the blanks. Orbiting around “TO ORBIT & TO SPIN”.
The planets …………… the Sun, the Moon orbits the Earth.
a.
The Earth ……………on its axis.
b.
3. Answer the question.
a) What are the main differences between the Sun and the planets?
Tick (T ) the correct answers.
) The Sun orbits the planets
T The Sun produces light, but planets do not.
T Planets move, but stars do not.
b) How many planets are there in the Solar System?
c) What are the two movements the planets make?
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d) What are the names of the planets in the Solar System?
Make a list of the planets, starting with the closest planet to the
Sun.
4. Colour the “Asteroid Belt”. Read the text slowly and
answer.
<<Asteroids are rocky objects that move around the Sun. They are
smaller than planets and moons. Most asteroids are located between
Mars and Jupiter.
a) What are asteroids?
b) Where are asteroids located in the Solar System?
5. Think about and answer.
a) What is at the centre of our Solar System?
b) Which planet is the biggest?
c) Which planet is called the quot;red planetquot;?
d) What is the name of the group of objects that orbit the Sun between
Mars and Jupiter?
6. First, second, third, fourth, fifth …
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a) The Earth is the ............... planet from the Sun.
b) Mercury is the ............... planet from the Sun.
c) Pluto is the ............... planet from the Sun.
d) Mars is the ............... planet from the Sun.
e) Jupiter is the ............... planet from the Sun.
f) Venus is the ............... planet from the Sun.
g) Saturn is the ............... planet from the Sun.
h) Neptune is the ............... planet from the Sun.
i) Uranus is the ............... planet from the Sun.
7. In outer space you can find a lot of things, Do you know their
names?.
________________ ____________ ______________
8 . Put the letters in order:
nomo mteoc thare tplena usn ermyruc arsm
9. Read the following text:
The solar system is made up of the Sun, the 9 planets and their 137
known moons, asteroids, comets, dust and gas. The planets, aster-
oids, and comets travel around the Sun, the centre of our solar sys-
tem. Most of the bodies in the solar system travel around the Sun in
circular paths or orbits, and all the planets travel about the Sun.
The solar system is billions of years old. Our solar system has 8 plan-
ets that orbit a big star called the Sun. (The planets move through a
path called orbit). All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical
paths.
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All the planets take different amounts of time to get all the way around
the Sun. Our Earth takes a year to make one complete orbit. That is
365 days.
Also, all the planets spin while they move around the Sun.
ON LINE ACTIVITIES
1. Visit this link and answer the questions:
Click here
1) What does Saturn mean?
2) How many moons does Jupiter have?
3) What does Mercury mean?
4)Which planet is in many ways similar to the Earth?
5) What are the names of the moons of Mars?.
6) What´s the diameter of Uranus?
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2. Visit the following link and answer the questions:
Click here
1) The Earth rotates around its...
3) How much is the Earth’s rotation axis tilted?
4) The last picture on the web is a animation, click play and think, Are
you now moving or stopped?.
5) What are the most important consequences of the rotation move-
ment for those who live on earth?.
3. Complete these sentences in your notebook:
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A) Winter starts on ................................
B) Spring starts on.................................
C) .............................starts on................
D)...........................................................
4. Drag and drop : Crosswords
Click here
5. Learn, test and revise
Click here
6. Longitude and Latitude Game
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Click here
7. Build our Milky Way
Click here
VOCABULARY
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1. Solar System 28. Longitude
2. Moon 29. Degree
3. Comet 30. Meridian
4. Asteroid 31. North
5. Sun 32. South
6. Orbit 33. East
7. Dust 34. West
8. Planet
9. Elliptical
10. Earth
11. Mars
12. Mercury
13. Pluto
14. Saturn
15. Uranus
16. Jupiter
17. Neptune
18. Venus
19. Belt
20. Axis
21. Orbit
22. Rotation
23. Revolution
24. Tilt
25. Equator
26. Tropic
27. Latitude
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